Younger brother Dzhokhar A. Tsarnaev, 19 years old. Located, seriously injured, now in hospital http://www.news.com.au/world-news/boston-marathon-bombings-suspect-dzhokhar-tsarnaev-in-custody/story-fndir2ev-1226624804954.
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Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 26 years old. Shot dead by Boston Police yesterday.
It seems that the worlds largest, most highly funded, security agencies, Russia's FSB (see below) and the FBI, together let the two slip through the cracks from 2011.
This might show how hard identifying and taken proactive measures is - or that big organisations (with too many distractions) are more likely to make mistakes.
Of the two agencies FSB was most on the ball. Could be that the Russian FSB provided the strongest tip-off to the FBI once the first photos of the 2 were released.
At least the FBI and Boston Police got the two before they could really hide.
On why did they (Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev) do it?
Most likely they felt guilty that they were unable to fight (practice jihad against) the Russians in the ongoing insurgency in their place of birth, the North Caucasus which includes the Russian republics of Chechnya, and Dagestan . Both republics are mainly Sunni Muslim. It may be significant that most al Qaeda fighters are Sunni.
Tamerlan in particular may have been aware that Russian security were on to him or that he decided to return from the Northern Caucasus because life was too hard there compared to congenial Boston.
The Tsarnaev brothers (with their family) escaped the fighting in Chechnya to the central Asian country of Kyrgyzstan and then on to the United States in the early 2000s.
Tamerlan in particular may have been aware that Russian security were on to him or that he decided to return from the Northern Caucasus because life was too hard there compared to congenial Boston.
The Tsarnaev brothers (with their family) escaped the fighting in Chechnya to the central Asian country of Kyrgyzstan and then on to the United States in the early 2000s.
Last week the two wanted to do something for Islam against the main WoT "enemy of Islam" (the US) and other Western enemies in the most news-worthy way easily available - the Boston Marathon - full of US and other Western runners. So this was jihad in place - highly symbolic but also a practical way to kill and injure many "enemies".
The jihadi Islamic connection has been confirmed by the Russian Government http://www.news.com.au/world-news/boston-marathon-bombings-what-made-tamerlan-and-dzhokhar-tsarnaev-turn-against-america/story-fndir2ev-1226625070069 Excerpts include:
"It has been revealed the Russian [Federal Security Bureau (FSB)] intelligence security service told the FBI in early 2011 about information that Tamerlan Tsarnaev, one of the brothers suspected in the Boston marathon bombings, was a follower of radical Islam, two law enforcement officials say.
They were identified by [US security] authorities and relatives as ethnic Chechens from southern Russia who had been in the US for about a decade.
According to an FBI news release issued on Friday night, a foreign government [Russia] said that based on its information, Tsarnaev was a strong believer and that he had changed drastically since 2010 as he prepared to leave the US for travel to a region in that country to join unspecified underground groups.
The FBI said that in response, [the FBI interviewed Tamerlan Tsarnaev 2 years ago] and relatives, and did not find any domestic or foreign terrorism activity.
The FBI said it provided the results in the summer of 2011. The FBI also said that it requested but did not receive more specific or additional information from the foreign government.
The FBI added that in response to the request, it checked US government databases and other information to look for such things as derogatory telephone communications, possible use of online sites associated with the promotion of radical activity, associations with other persons of interest, travel history and plans and education history.
Tamerlan - recently married with young daughter - life took a different path as he grew older. He became a more devout Muslim praying up to five times a day.
His brother Dzhokhar was a 9/11 denier who had been seen "relaxed" at a party on the Wednesday night after the bombings.
Dzhokhar was an all-star wrestler and a member of the class of 2011 at Cambridge Rindge & Latin School, and won a $2500 Cambridge City Scholarship that year. "This is othing we would ever expect, ever," said one high school friend, the nephew of Boston radio host Robin Young, who was identified on WBUR, the Boston National Public Radio station, only by the letter "Z."
"He was a laid-back kid you could always count on just to hang out with and really de-stress with," the friend said of Dzhokhar. "There was never a sign of anything out of the ordinary."
Tamerlan was listed as a competitor in a National Golden Gloves competition in 2009. He told the Lowell Sun newspaper in a 2004 interview after winning his first fight that he liked "the USA."
He told Boston University student Johannes Hirn, who profiled him in a photo essay that if he were to become a naturalised American and chosen for the US Olympic team, "he'd rather compete for the United States than for Russia," unless his native Chechnya became independent [from Russia].
Tamerlan had studied accounting at Bunker Hill Community College. He recently posted YouTube videos indicating interest in radicalised Muslim ideologies. But he had dropped out of college and increasingly become more interested in his religion.
The North Caucasus region of Chechnya that the two escaped from [to Kyrgyzstan] with their families has been ravaged by two back-to-back wars since 1994 between Russia's army and increasingly Islamist-leaning separatist rebels, and the mountainous region still sees occasional fighting.
There was evidence that Tamerlan was a corrosive influence on his younger brother.
Zaur Tsarnaev, who identified himself as a 26-year-old cousin of the brothers, told theBoston Globe in a phone interview from Makhachkala, in southern Russia, that he had warned Dzhokhar that Tamerlan "was up to no good."
He said the older brother "was always getting into trouble. He was never happy, never cheering, never smiling. He used to strike his girlfriend. He hurt her a few times. He was not a nice man. I don't like to speak about him. He caused problems for my family."
An uncle of the two men, Ruslan Tsarni, said yesterday his nephews had shamed the family name as well as Chechnya, where the family has roots."
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Pete
"It has been revealed the Russian [Federal Security Bureau (FSB)] intelligence security service told the FBI in early 2011 about information that Tamerlan Tsarnaev, one of the brothers suspected in the Boston marathon bombings, was a follower of radical Islam, two law enforcement officials say.
They were identified by [US security] authorities and relatives as ethnic Chechens from southern Russia who had been in the US for about a decade.
According to an FBI news release issued on Friday night, a foreign government [Russia] said that based on its information, Tsarnaev was a strong believer and that he had changed drastically since 2010 as he prepared to leave the US for travel to a region in that country to join unspecified underground groups.
The FBI said that in response, [the FBI interviewed Tamerlan Tsarnaev 2 years ago] and relatives, and did not find any domestic or foreign terrorism activity.
The FBI said it provided the results in the summer of 2011. The FBI also said that it requested but did not receive more specific or additional information from the foreign government.
The FBI added that in response to the request, it checked US government databases and other information to look for such things as derogatory telephone communications, possible use of online sites associated with the promotion of radical activity, associations with other persons of interest, travel history and plans and education history.
Tamerlan - recently married with young daughter - life took a different path as he grew older. He became a more devout Muslim praying up to five times a day.
But within the ordinariness, there were also signs of alienation. "I don't have a single American friend," Tamerlan said in a photo essay about his love of boxing. "I don't understand them."
Dzhokhar's actions shocked many of those who had called him their friend. He had a loyal group of allies, who yesterday were still saying they would testify for him.
Dzhokhar was an all-star wrestler and a member of the class of 2011 at Cambridge Rindge & Latin School, and won a $2500 Cambridge City Scholarship that year. "This is othing we would ever expect, ever," said one high school friend, the nephew of Boston radio host Robin Young, who was identified on WBUR, the Boston National Public Radio station, only by the letter "Z."
"He was a laid-back kid you could always count on just to hang out with and really de-stress with," the friend said of Dzhokhar. "There was never a sign of anything out of the ordinary."
Tamerlan was listed as a competitor in a National Golden Gloves competition in 2009. He told the Lowell Sun newspaper in a 2004 interview after winning his first fight that he liked "the USA."
He told Boston University student Johannes Hirn, who profiled him in a photo essay that if he were to become a naturalised American and chosen for the US Olympic team, "he'd rather compete for the United States than for Russia," unless his native Chechnya became independent [from Russia].
Tamerlan had studied accounting at Bunker Hill Community College. He recently posted YouTube videos indicating interest in radicalised Muslim ideologies. But he had dropped out of college and increasingly become more interested in his religion.
The North Caucasus region of Chechnya that the two escaped from [to Kyrgyzstan] with their families has been ravaged by two back-to-back wars since 1994 between Russia's army and increasingly Islamist-leaning separatist rebels, and the mountainous region still sees occasional fighting.
There was evidence that Tamerlan was a corrosive influence on his younger brother.
Zaur Tsarnaev, who identified himself as a 26-year-old cousin of the brothers, told theBoston Globe in a phone interview from Makhachkala, in southern Russia, that he had warned Dzhokhar that Tamerlan "was up to no good."
He said the older brother "was always getting into trouble. He was never happy, never cheering, never smiling. He used to strike his girlfriend. He hurt her a few times. He was not a nice man. I don't like to speak about him. He caused problems for my family."
An uncle of the two men, Ruslan Tsarni, said yesterday his nephews had shamed the family name as well as Chechnya, where the family has roots."
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Pete